Improvement in cultivators



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Cultivator.

Patented Sept. 21, I875.

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WITN ESSES v v INVENTORS ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY WIN IELD AND WILLIAM P. FLYNN, OF PANTEGO, NORTH CAROLINA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CULTIVATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 168,074, datedSeptember 21, 1875; application filed June 5, 1875.

I To all whom it may concernr Be it known that we, HENRY WINFIELD andWILLIAM P. FLYNN, of Pantego, in the county of Beaufort and State ofNorth Carolina, have invented a new and valuable Improvement inGottonOultivators; and we do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a partofthis specification, and to the letters and figures of reference markedthereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a side elevation of ourcotton-cultivator,

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' parallel to each other, and are secured, by

bolts and nuts on a, to the beam A at right angles thereto, as shown inFig. 2. By loosening the nuts and bolts a a, the slotted bars 0 G can beadjusted in a direction with their length. In order to secure greaterrigidity of the bars 0 0, they are let into the beam A nearly flush withits upper surface. D D designate standards, to which sole-bars E E andstrap-braces b b are rigidly secured, to which latter the shovels F Fare adjustahly attached by means of pivot-boltsc and bolts d, whichlatter pass through oblong slots e, made through the upper portions ofthe shovels. By loosening the bolts 01 the shovels can be adjusted abouttheir pivots '0, so as to run deeper or shallower, as circumstances re-.quire.

The upper end of each standard D isbent at right angle to theverticalportion thereof, and perforated to receive through it a bolt, f, whichbolt is passed through the slot in bar 0, and confined by a nut, f. Thisholds the standard rigidly to the bar 0, and by loosening the nut f thestandard can be adjusted and set at any desired point on the bar.

which hold them to the draft-beam, and that the two shovel-standards areadjustably attached to said bars. This allows the bars 0 O to beadjusted on the beam A, so that a single horse can be used for drawingthe implement, or the bars can be adjusted so that two horses can beused.

When a single horse is used, and the shovels are adjusted as shown infull lines, Fig. 2,

the animal will walk in the channel on one side of a row of plants; andif itis found that the shovel farthest from the beam A dips too deeplyinto the soil, owing to a preponderance of one part of the bar or barsover the other, all the nuts of both bars 0 O are loosened, and thesebars are adjusted endwise until-a proper balance is obtained,

after which the nuts are tightened.

The full lines in Fig. 2 indicate the shovels adjusted for turning theearth toward the roots of the plants, and the dotted lines indicate theshovels adjusted for turning the earth from the plants.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a cotton-cultivator, the slotted bars 0 G, laterally adjustable onthe beam A, in combination' with the standards D G, with shovels Fadjustable in the slots of the bars 0 0, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

In testimony that we claim the above we have hereunto subscribed ournames in the presence of two witnesses.

HENRY WINFIELD. WILLIAM P. FLYNN.

Witnesses:

Jos. B. LooMIs, GEORGE E. UrEAM.

